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Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make

Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make This past weekend Texas experienced its first tropical weather event for the 2021 season, and the season doesn’t officially begin until June 1st. Each year the tropics have been becoming active earlier than expected, and at this time they are unofficially starting the season in mid-May. Now […]

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It Gets Ugly: Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunged at Fastest Pace since 1982. It’s “Permanent” not “Temporary,” Won’t Bounce Back

It Gets Ugly: Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunged at Fastest Pace since 1982. It’s “Permanent” not “Temporary,” Won’t Bounce Back The Consumer Price Index jumped 0.6% in May, after having jumped 0.8% in April, and 0.6% in March – all three the steepest month-to-month jumps since 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. For the three […]

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Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law

Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum. A society that prohibits the capacity […]

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Is a “Climate Lockdown” on the horizon?

Is a “Climate Lockdown” on the horizon? If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won’t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they’ll be rebranded as “climate lockdowns”, and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public’s head. At least, according to an article written by an […]

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Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant

Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant A nuclear power plant in southeastern China could turn into an “imminent radiological threat,” the part owner of the facility, a French company, has told the United States, CNN reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials and a letter of the French firm it had obtained. The U.S. has been assessing […]

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Oil Markets Baffled As The IEA Calls For More Production

Oil Markets Baffled As The IEA Calls For More Production In its latest Monthly Oil Report, the IEA called on OPEC+ to increase production in order to counter higher demand in 2022. The agency claimed that, based on current global economic growth expectations, demand for crude oil and petroleum products will be reaching pre-COVID levels […]

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The G-7’s Reckless Commitment To Mounting Debt

The G-7’s Reckless Commitment To Mounting Debt Historically, meetings of the largest economies in the world have been essential to reach essential agreements that would incentivise prosperity and growth. This was not the case this time. The G7 meeting agreements were light on detailed economic decisions, except on the most damaging of them all. A minimum […]

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Vancouver Council Votes Against Delay for Climate Emergency Plan

Vancouver Council Votes Against Delay for Climate Emergency Plan City bylaw will require new homes built after Jan. 1 to use zero-emissions heat and hot water systems, effectively banning natural gas hookups. ‘What’s clear to me after years of doing climate work is that climate delay is the same as climate denial,’ said Coun. Christine […]

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The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy

A brown coal mining machine operating at the Welzow-Sued lignite opencast mine in Welzow, eastern Germany. A new report out Wednesday details how so-called “net zero” pledges are simply schemes propagated by the fossil fuel industry and other powerful interests “to mask inaction, foist the burden of emissions cuts and pollution avoidance on historically exploited […]

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One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear 

One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear  Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the day. But in this note, […]

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Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant

Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant What Carney ultimately wants is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, is the author of Value(s): Building a Better World for All. PHOTO BY DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS/FILE In his book Value(s): Building […]

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Fossil Fuels Aren’t Dying, They’re Shifting To National And State Backed Companies

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Dying, They’re Shifting To National And State Backed Companies Despite the activist shareholder battles, calls for ESG changes and just outright negative press about fossil fuels, it looks like rumors of oil’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Fossil fuels aren’t dying – rather, their output is just being shifted to national and state […]

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The Next Ten Billion Years

The Next Ten Billion Years This is a post that I published on “Cassandra’s Legacy” in 2012. It was one of the most successful posts ever published on that blog, it was reposted, discussed, and criticized in several places, including a long rebuttal by John Michael Greer, “The ArchDruid.” I commented on Greer’s comments here. I think it […]

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Cooling effect of clouds ‘underestimated’ by climate models, says new study

Cooling effect of clouds ‘underestimated’ by climate models, says new study Cooling effect of clouds ‘underestimated’ by climate models, says new study   *     *     * Clouds could have a greater cooling effect on the planet than climate models currently suggest, according to new research. The paper, published in Nature Climate Change, aims to […]

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Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’

Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’ In October 2020, I analysed press coverage of degrowth in Western European (English language) newspapers and magazines between January 2015 and October 2020.  Using media theory concepts such as agenda setting and framing, my research explored how degrowth is being considered in the […]

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